sandal

See also: Sandal, sandál, and sandał

English

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Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsændəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ændəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English sandal (“sandal”), from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion), diminutive of σάνδαλον (sándalon, “sandal”), of unknown origin. Often mistakenly parsed as related to sand.

Noun

sandal (plural sandals)

2. (footwear) A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot

Hyponyms

• flip-flop, jandal, thong

Derived terms

• beach sandal
• sword and sandal
• toey as a Roman sandal

Translations

type of footwear

Albanian: sandale (sq) f American Sign Language: 1@BackFinger-PalmDown-5@InsideTrunkhigh-PalmDown Frontandback 1@BackHand-PalmDown-5@InsideTrunkhigh-PalmDown, 2@UlnarBackFinger-PalmBack-4@InsideTrunkhigh-PalmDown 2@RadialBackFinger 2@UlnarBackHand 2@RadialBackHand Arabic: صَنْدَل m (ṣandal) Egyptian Arabic: نعال m (nuʕāl) Hijazi Arabic: صَنْدَل m (ṣandal), مَدَاس m (madās) Armenian: սանդալ (hy) (sandal) Assamese: চেণ্ডেল (sendel) Asturian: sandalia f Belarusian: санда́ль m (sandálʹ) Betawi: sendal Bulgarian: санда́л m (sandál) Catalan: sandàlia (ca) f Chickasaw: pas pas, pas pas sholosh Chinese: Mandarin: 涼鞋 / 凉鞋 (zh) (liángxié), 草鞋 (zh) (cǎoxié) (straw sandals) Czech: sandál m Danish: sandal (da) c Dutch: sandaal (nl) f Egyptian: (ṯbwt f) Esperanto: sandalo (eo) Estonian: sandaal Finnish: sandaali (fi) French: sandale (fr) f Galician: sandalia (gl) f Georgian: სანდალი (ka) (sandali), ქალამანი (ka) (kalamani) German: Sandale (de) f Greek: σανδάλι (el) n (sandáli), πέδιλο (el) n (pédilo) Aeolic: σάμβαλον n (sámbalon) Ancient: σάνδαλον n (sándalon), πέδιλον n (pédilon) Hausa: sandal Hebrew: סַנְדָּל (he) m (sandál) Hindi: चप्पल (hi) f (cappal) Hungarian: szandál (hu) Icelandic: sandali (is) m Ido: sandalo (io) Indonesian: sandal (id) Irish: cuarán m Old Irish: accrann f Italian: sandalo (it) m Japanese: サンダル (ja) (sandaru), 草鞋 (ja) (わらじ, waraji) Kannada: ಚಪ್ಪಲಿ (kn) (cappali) Khmer: ស្បែកជើងសង្រែក (sbaek cəəng sɑŋraek) Korean: 샌들 (ko) (saendeul), 초혜 (chohye) (straw sandals) Lao: ເກີບຊັງດ້ານ (kœ̄p sang dān) Latin: crepida f, solea f Latvian: sandale f Lithuanian: sandalas m Malayalam: ചെരുപ്പ് (ml) (ceruppŭ) Maltese: sandlija f, karkur m Maore Comorian: kabwa class 9/10 Maori: pārekereke, kuara, korehe, korehe, korehe, pāengaenga Marathi: चप्पल (mr) f (cappal) Musi: cenéla Navajo: kégiizh haaztʼiʼí Norwegian: Bokmål: sandal (no) m Nynorsk: sandal m Occitan: sandala (oc) f Old English: sole f Persian: صندل (fa) (sandal) Plautdietsch: Sandal f Polish: sandał (pl) m Portuguese: sandália (pt), chinelo (pt) Romanian: sanda (ro) f, sandală (ro) f Russian: санда́лия (ru) f (sandálija), босоно́жка (ru) f (bosonóžka) (female, open-toe sandal) Scottish Gaelic: cuaran m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: санда́ла f Roman: sandála (sh) f Sicilian: sànnalu m, zòcculu m Slovak: sandál m Spanish: sandalia (es) f, chala (es) f (Chile), chinela (es) f (Bolivia), (sandal with flat sole and crossed leather straps) chancleta (es) f, caite (es) m (Guatemala, Nicaragua), cutara m (Eastern Cuba), huarache (es) m (Mexico), chancla (es) f, calipso m (Dominican Republic), ojota (es) f, ushuta f (Argentina), llanque m Swahili: kiatu (sw) class 7/8 Swedish: sandal (sv) c Tagalog: sandalyas Tajik: шиппак (šippak) Tamil: செருப்பு (ta) (ceruppu) Tarifit: tsirit f Thai: รองเท้าแตะ (th) (rɔɔng-táao-dtɛ̀), รองเท้าคีบ (rɔɔng-táao-kîip) Turkish: sandalet (tr), sandal (tr) Ukrainian: санда́лія f (sandálija), санда́ль m (sandálʹ) Urdu: چپل f (cappal) Uzbek: shippak (uz), sandal (uz) Vietnamese: dép (vi), dép quai hậu Welsh: sandal (cy) f, sandalau f pl West Frisian: sandaal (fy) Zazaki: ğamık m

Etymology 2

From Middle English sandal (“sandalwood”), from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνδανον (sándanon), σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cndl /⁠čandal⁠/, “sandalwood”), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana, “sandalwood”). Doublet of santalum.

Noun

sandal (uncountable)

2. sandalwood
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal, amber, ancient rosaries […]

Translations

sandalwood — see sandalwood

Etymology 3

From Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), the same word as the shoe sandal, just applied for boats of the shape of this shoe.

Noun

sandal (plural sandals)

1. A long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast.

Anagrams

• Landas, Andals

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

sandal

Wikipedia ^da

Noun

sandal c (definite singular sandalen, indefinite plural sandaler, definite plural sandalerne)

1. a sandal

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sán.dàl/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sán.dàl]

Noun

sandàl m

1. sandal(s) (footwear)
2. sandalwood
3. perfume derived from sandalwood

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• sendal (colloquial)

Noun

sandal (plural sandal-sandal)

1. (footwear) a type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot

Further reading

• “sandal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).

Alternative forms

• sandalle, sandelle, sendylle, sendale

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsandal/, /ˈsandəl/, /ˈsɛndəl/

Noun

sandal

1. sandal, thong, slip-on
2. episcopal sandal, papal slipper

Descendants

• English: sandal
• Scots: sandal

References

• “sandal, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 April 2018.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνδανον (sándanon), σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cndl /⁠čandal⁠/, “sandalwood”), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana, “sandalwood”). Doublet of saundres.

Alternative forms

• sandale, sandel, sandell

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsandal/, /ˈsandəl/

Noun

sandal

1. sandalwood or something made with it

   Synonym: saundres

Descendants

• English: sandal

References

• “sandal(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

sandaler

Wikipedia ^no

Noun

sandal m (definite singular sandalen, indefinite plural sandaler, definite plural sandalene)

1. a sandal (open shoe)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

sandal m (definite singular sandalen, indefinite plural sandalar, definite plural sandalane)

1. a sandal (open shoe)

Romanian

Noun

sandal m (plural sandali)

1. alternative form of santal

Declension

Declension of sandal

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sandal	sandalul		sandali	sandalii
genitive-dative	sandal	sandalului		sandali	sandalilor
vocative	sandalule			sandalilor

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sandale, from Ancient Greek σάνδαλον (sándalon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sanˈdɑːl/

Noun

sandal c

1. a sandal

Declension

Declension of sandal

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sandal	sandals
	definite	sandalen	sandalens
plural	indefinite	sandaler	sandalers
	definite	sandalerna	sandalernas

Further reading

• sandal in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• sandal in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• landas

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay sandar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sandəʀ (“lean on or against”). Doublet of salig and sandig. See also sunday.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /sanˈdal/ [sɐn̪ˈd̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: san‧dal

Noun

sandál (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜇᜎ᜔)

1. leaning of one's back (on something)

   Synonym: pagsandal

2. leaning position; reclining position (on something)

   Synonym: pagkakasandal

3. something placed in a reclining or leaning position against something
4. (figurative) dependence; reliance (on someone for support)

Derived terms

• isandal
• magsandalan
• mapasandal
• pagkakasandal
• pagsandal
• pasandal
• pasandalin
• sandalan
• sumandal

See also

• handal

Anagrams

• landas

Ternate

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian sandal, from Dutch sandaal, from Middle French sandale, from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sanˈdal]

Noun

sandal

1. sandal

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sandal.

Noun

sandal

1. sandals

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).

Noun

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

1. boat (water craft)

Etymology 2

From Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal).

Noun

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

1. a small tropical tree of the Santalaceae family, Santalum album

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French sandale.

Noun

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

1. sandal

Synonyms

• sandalet

Declension

Declension of sandal

	singular	plural
nominative	sandal	sandallar
definite accusative	sandalı	sandalları
dative	sandala	sandallara
locative	sandalda	sandallarda
ablative	sandaldan	sandallardan
genitive	sandalın	sandalların